Catholic Chicagoans gathered in churches, cheered from classrooms and celebrated from their homes as the historic decision ...

The new leader for Catholics around the world spent some of his younger years in West Michigan, local Catholic leaders say.

VATICAN CITY — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born ...

The students of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy who earlier this week held a mock conclave were overjoyed Thursday when ...

Shortly after 6 P.M. in Rome, the longed-for sight appeared above the Sistine Chapel: white smoke.Over the course of a day ...

As 133 cardinals sequestered in the Sistine Chapel to select a new pope May 7, nearly 4,500 miles away another conclave ...

As Catholics from around the world were watching the white smoke pour out of the chimney in the Vatican, students in Toledo ...

Román had been appointed interim chancellor of the system after the surprise resignation of Francisco C. Rodriguez in 2024.

The question facing the conclave is whether the cardinals want to continue in the direction set by Pope Francis.

St. Thomas students have one eye on their textbooks and another on the Sistine Chapel where the College of Cardinals is ...